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06/17/10(Thu)04:11:46 No.9557425Notable
deaths from use
Purple drank is confirmed or suspected to have
caused the deaths of several prominent users. Respiratory depression is a
potentially serious or fatal adverse drug reaction associated with the
use of codeine, but mainly the danger lies in the much more potent and
CNS-depressing phenothiazine-related antihistamine promethazine. This
depression is dose-related and is the mechanism for the potentially
fatal consequences of overdose: respiratory or cardiac arrest. As with
most CNS depressants, mixing with alcohol greatly increases the risk of
respiratory failure and other complications.
DJ Screw, who
popularized the codeine-based drink, died of a
codeine-promethazine-alcohol overdose on November 16, 2000, several
months after the video to Three 6 Mafia's single debuted.
Big
Moe, a DJ Screw protege whose albums City of Syrup and Purple World were
based on the drink and who has been described as having "rapped
incessantly about the drug," died at age 33 on October 14, 2007, after
suffering a heart attack one week earlier that left him in a coma. There
was speculation that purple drank may have contributed to his death.
Pimp
C, widely influential Port Arthur, Texas rapper and a member of rap duo
UGK, was found dead on December 4, 2007, at the Mondrian Hotel in West
Hollywood, California. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office reported
that the rapper's death was "due to promethazine/codeine effects and
other unestablished factors." Ed Winter, assistant chief of the
coroner's office, said the levels of the medication were elevated, but
not enough to deem the death an overdose. However, Pimp C had a history
of sleep apnea, a condition that causes one to stop breathing for short
periods during sleep. A spokesman for the coroner's office said that the
combination of sleep apnea and cough medication probably suppressed
Pimp C's breathing long enough to bring on his death.
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